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High · 8.1 Scanner template Public exploit CVE-2025-2563 EUVD-2025-10866GHSA-jxh5-f52q-732j

User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2- Unauthenticated Privilege Escalation

Published Apr 14, 2025 · Updated Aug 27, 2025 · Assigned by WPScan

Category: Web / CMS

Description

The User Registration & Membership WordPress plugin before 4.1.2 does not prevent users to set their account role when the Membership Addon is enabled, leading to a privilege escalation issue and allowing unauthenticated users to gain admin privileges

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
— User Registration & Membership < 4.1.2 4.1.2

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

GitHub 4 repositories

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

Automated scanner template

A ready-made Nuclei template detects this vulnerability automatically. Vulnerabilities with public scanner templates are typically probed across the internet soon after the template appears — exposed systems should be patched first.

Source: projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates (MIT) — updated daily. Only links are listed.

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